Comment on Inadmissible

• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it clearly is, and that’s not why hearsay is inadmissible anyway.

  it’s inadmissible because it can’t be cross examined.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they mean eyewitness testimony. eyewitness testimony is not actually worth anything because people don’t remember things properly and often the brain will make shit up just to fill in the blanks—especially when it matters. I was crossing an intersection once and was five paces away from a serious car accident and I couldn’t even remember which car was coming from which direction. wild.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that’s another thing, and partly why cross examination is a thing, but eyewitness testimony is not inadmissible. in fact many trials have relied on a single eyewitness testimony, and whether the jury believes the witness or not.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Car crashes are a joke to you?

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